>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Lord [mailto:lord@emf.net]
>On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 00:43 +0000, Sylvain Galineau wrote:
>
>> >A system of rootstrings forbids a client from
>> >performing certain computations with a file that
>> >is already in hand, if the client is to be called
>> >conforming. This refusal is in spite of the fact
>> >that no interop enhancement is thus obtained.
>> The first sentence is correct. The second does not logically follow.
>Today, Mozilla may reject a web font that WebKit would not. That is not
>interoperable even though rootstrings are not involved.
>
>
>That is not an *inter*-op issue. No
>program in what you describe is confused
>as to the meaning of any particular bit of
>data. They diverge only in terms of what
>they afford users.
That a browsers may render the same page completely differently from what the author intends given the same exact HTTP requests and responses is not an interop issues ?
I disagree. But that doesn't matter as long as you can convince web authors it's not an interop issue. Good luck.